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Myrtle Loucille Thompson Smith

BLUEFIELD - Myrtle Loucille Thompson Smith, 91, of 102 Lakeland Park, Bluefield, and formerly of Landgraff, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2003 at the Westwood Center in Bluefield, Va.

Born on March 10, 1912 in Mayben, she was a daughter of the late Sherwood Lyndon Thompson and Myrtle Day Hoskins of Doran, Va. A 1932 graduate of Panther High School, she loved basketball and softball and played during her high school years. She was a member of the Green Valley Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Green Valley.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Herman Cecil Smith; one sister, Mrs. Bessie Magdalene Phipps; one brother, Sherwood Lyndon Thompson; and one son, David Lyndon Smith preceded her in death.

Survivors include one son, Herman Cecil Smith Jr. and wife, Helen of Temple City, Calif.; e daughter, Linda Ruth Smith Ramella and husband, Tullio A. of Bluefield, Va.; daughter-in-law, Patsy Smith, wife of the late David L. Smith of Bluefield; seven grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home Chapel in Bluewell with Pastor David Byrkit officiating. Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton with family and friends serving as pallbearers.

Friends may call on Tuesday evening from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association.

Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell is serving the Smith family.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph